Architect and traditional construction case study: Kishdareh village

Abstract

Geographical conditions of Iran cause to provide four climatic regions includingmountainous temperate, moist-warm, warm-dry and cold-moist. These four climatescan be effective on providing types of village buildings and different shapesof construction in each area.  Thisclimatic condition during the several centuries cause to create Local architectureand Iranian people produced the traditional architecture structure in thisregions based on the recognizing the type of existence materials. It seems thatthe texture of the Local architecture in country have different structures. Thematerials changes with lapse, but it can be possible to conserve native textureof villages similar to previous using new operational methods and structure ofLocal materials. Moreover, we can introduce this method to other societies.Kishdareh village is located in Guilan province. The architecture of thisvillage is in accordance with the special climate of region. This studyattempts to recognize the architect of traditional buildings and introduce thearchitecture of settlement space and introduce suitable method to basal usagefor mentioned village. Thus, required data was collected from mentioned villagethrough observation, control and field survey method with considering theproperties of traditional architecture of Kishdareh village and operationalmethods and recognizing native materials.